Writing Mexican history / Eric Van Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Young, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Historiography.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways in which separate historical literatures have developed over time. They cover a wide range of topics: the historiography of the colonial and nineteenth-century Mexican and Latin American countryside; historical writing in English on the history of colonial Mexico; British, American, and Mexica

Contents:

Waves and ripples : studies of the Mexican hacienda since 1980

Rural Latin America : the colonial period and nineteenth century

Two decades of Anglophone writing on colonial Mexico : continuity and change since 1980

No human power to impede the impenetrable order of providence : the historiography of Mexican independence

Doing regional history : a theoretical discussion and some Mexican cases

The Cuautla Lazarus : reading texts on popular collective action

The new cultural history comes to old Mexico.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804780551

0804780552

OCLC:

768083135